Re: use Ada.Text_IO in main() or Package?

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com]

The "with" clauses are always on top of the text, before anything (package, procedure, function).
A "use" clause opens the visibility ("use Ada.Text_IO" allows you to write "Put" instead of "Ada.Text_IO.Put"), so it can be in the same region as "with", or more locally, inside a function for instance. Sometimes it is more practical to restrict the visibility. In a complex program, you may want to have always a package name prefixed, like "Display.Line" for readability, but in some function that displays plenty of things, it will be more readable to have a local "use Display;", then your bunch of Line(...); Circle(...); etc. are obviously from "Display".
HTH
Gautier
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